Disappearance

Articles

• HuffPost Maghreb Shuts Down After Six Years, Citing Strategic Reasons
  4 December 2019, by Ginette

  The Huffpost Maghreb is withdrawing from the media scene after animating it for six years. The announcement of the closure was made on Tuesday.
  "As of December 3, Huffpost Maghreb will cease publishing content," the Maghreb edition announced on its website, inviting its readers to consult the American version. No official explanation has been given for this decision. But an internal note points to strategic reasons.
  Launched in 2005 in the United States and existing in several (…)

• Families Plead for Help as Moroccan Truck Drivers Vanish in West Africa
  2 February, by Sylvanus

  Worried, the families of the missing Moroccan drivers between Burkina Faso and Niger have launched an urgent appeal to the Moroccan authorities, urging them to intervene immediately. They fear they may have been kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
  The families of the Moroccan truck drivers who have been missing since Saturday, January 18, on a road between northeastern Burkina Faso and western Niger are living in anguished waiting, where the lack of any news accentuates their (…)

• Missing 86-Year-Old Belgian Man Found Alive After Two-Day Search
  27 March, by Said

  The octogenarian El Miloud El Azaoui, whose disappearance on Sunday afternoon in Farciennes had mobilized authorities and relatives, was found alive on Tuesday. He had left his home, rue Clément Daix, on Sunday, and had not given any sign of life since.
  "I went to his house on Sunday, and after my departure, his neighbor saw him leave his home," his daughter had explained on Monday, while the search was in full swing. She specified that after leaving, her father "went to a small store, (…)

• Morocco’s King Condemns ’Odious Act’ in Murder of 11-Year-Old Adnane Bouchouf
  16 September 2020, by Jérôme

  King Mohammed VI sent a message of condolences and compassion to the family of Adnane Bouchouf, an 11-year-old boy who disappeared, was raped, found dead and buried near his parents’ home in Tangier.
  In this message, the Sovereign states that he learned with great emotion and deep sorrow the news of the tragedy that has grieved Adnane’s family. The Sovereign condemns the criminal, odious act of which the child was a victim.
  King Mohammed VI implores, on this occasion, the Almighty to (…)

• Mystery Deepens: Dutch Drug Queen Naïma Jillal Missing Since 2019
  17 March 2021, by Ginette

  Since 2019, Naïma Jillal, the drug trafficker nicknamed "Aunt" has been untraceable. The latest elements of the investigation conducted by the Dutch authorities led the police to Belgium, in a warehouse where the baroness’ personal belongings were found, but no trace of her.
  At 52 years old, this Moroccan from Nador living in the Netherlands holds a prominent place within the Dutch mafia. Naïma Jillal is "a key person in the international cocaine trade," according to 7sur7. But she seems (…)

• Search Intensifies for Missing 14-Year-Old Girl in Moroccan City of Mohammedia
  22 September 2024, by Sylvanus

  In Mohammedia, a family is asking residents for help in finding their 14-year-old daughter who has not given any sign of life since leaving her home on September 9.
  Meriem Zouhri was last seen leaving her parents’ home to run an errand around 10 p.m. on September 9. She did not take any personal belongings, ruling out the hypothesis of a runaway. "Everything was normal at home; she had no reason to run away," her older sister Imane told Morocco World News. She hinted that her family was (…)

• Search Intensifies for Missing 13-Year-Old in French Alps
  2 April, by Prince

  Missing for more than a week, Amjad Jacquemin, a 13-year-old teenager, remains untraceable. His family is desperately searching for him. The national police have issued a missing person alert for the young man of Moroccan origin.
  This 13-year-old teenager, a resident of the Les Perce-Neige educational center in Gap, has not given any sign of life since March 23, the date on which he is said to have disappeared, according to the missing person alert issued by the police of the (…)

• Missing Chinese Tourist Found Safe in Fez, Morocco After Family Alerts Police
  19 January 2019, by Said

  A Chinese national who was the subject of a missing persons report filed by her family has been located by the prefectural judicial police service in Fez.
  "A man presented himself on Friday afternoon at the Fez police headquarters to report the disappearance of his 22-year-old daughter who, he said, had been in contact with him from Morocco in recent days before her calls were limited to requests for money," states the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) in a press release, (…)

• Missing Moroccan Man’s Remains Found in Palma de Mallorca Drug Case
  19 January 2019, by Said

  The Spanish police have just announced that they have discovered the remains of a body that could be that of a young Moroccan who has been missing for several months in Palma de Mallorca.
  26-year-old Moustapha El Karchaoui has not given any news to his relatives since last August, when his family reported his disappearance to the Guardia Civil.
  Today, a series of clues found by the police and Civil Guard investigators have led them to conclude that it is a "forced disappearance", (…)

• Missing Moroccan Teens Found Safe in Marrakech After 10-Day Search
  21 January 2019, by Said

  The two girls, around 15 years old, who had been missing for ten days in Temara, were located by the police in Marrakech.
  "The parents of these two girls had filed a missing persons report on January 10 with the family following the disappearance of the minors who did not return home after leaving their school," reads a statement published by the MAP, according to which "the investigations and inquiries carried out in continuous coordination with the family members made it possible to (…)